06: A failed escape

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Layla POV A waiter passed with a tray of drinks and Lois grabbed two. "Where the hell is Noah?" she asked, her eyes scanning the room. "How can he just vanish the second we walk in?" I wanted to say something along the lines of Noah always vanished in events like this. But my eyes drifted to the special couple again, and the words died. Carla glowed as she laughed at something Draven had said. I couldn't take my eyes off him at that moment. I watched the controlled way he bent his head toward her, giving her just enough attention to be unimpeachable. He still hadn't looked my way once. Not during the ceremony. Not since the goodbye I had forced on both of us in the woods. Irrationally, I'd wished that he wouldn't… "You girls having a good time?" Beta Gordon appeared, and the tho

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